Scammers are trolling

Dave Wermuth

Who hid my paddle?
I just received another suspicious contact response to my classified ad. This one used the last name of the original owner somehow. The scammer count is at about 4 now. Unfortunately, this is the world we live in.
 
Unfortunately everyone gets these scammer responses, often many of them. Just gotta be skeptical and diligently careful. All the warnings on the classified submission page were put there precisely because some advertisers seemed unaware and sometimes even unable to discriminate the scammers from legitimate inquiries. As you pointed out, Dave, it's simply part of our world today.
 
The similar threads section is valuable. It goes back to 2006 and reveals the efforts our webmasters make every day to keep things kosher. Scammers are not that hard to spot fortunately. But it is an ongoing irritation.
 
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